aleph_minus_one

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by aleph_minus_one 5d ago
> In a place operating with SCRUM you're often expected to be shipping things every sprint ... or you don't care about these expectations, and give a big "f*ck you" to them.
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by aleph_minus_one 5d ago
> will just define a new baseline expectation This assumes that you care about (at least a little bit) what the other side expects from you.
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by aleph_minus_one 5d ago
> The senior you get the more you realise that the only reward for hard work is more work. Then, you learn to say no more often and set boundaries and negotiate like if you want me to work on project A, then I won’t have capacity to work
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by aleph_minus_one 6d ago
> Someone should make the millennium problems for AI alignment so the frontier labs will actually try to solve that problem. Rather: Someone should make the millennium problems for human alignment so the top researchers will actually
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by aleph_minus_one 6d ago
> AI writes unmaintainable code - you can see that many projects don't accept it. There also exist other good reasons why projects don't want AI-generated code, in particular - because of unclarity of copyright status and cons
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by aleph_minus_one 8d ago
> No way. Mathematicians don't assume things to be true even if there are no counterexamples. It depends: there do exist some conjectures for which there don't exist any proofs, but a huge amount of results assuming this conjec
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by aleph_minus_one 8d ago
> The doc won't point it out explicitly and I apologize if my explanation offends anybody, but the intention is basically leftist, state-friendly bitcoin. The authors took a look at the anarchy of real cryptocurrencies and realized
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by aleph_minus_one 8d ago
And many Germans are deeply distrustful of such cameras.
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by aleph_minus_one 8d ago
> They brag about their great "data protection" laws, and the same same day you read in the news how yet another of their universities got hacked and how some incompetent government agency leaked the sensitive private informati
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
> Hacker conference: against authoritarian government, with talk about security, privacy, opsec etc. > Also: can only buy ticket online with credit card and real name, no onsite sell available, your name is probably give to conference
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
Berlin is very different from the rest of Germany.
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by aleph_minus_one 9d ago
> I have a strong bias towards recording public environments and a heavy aversion to any censorship, whatsoever. This is a balancing of legally protected interests [Güterabwägung] between privacy and censhorship. Independently of what th
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by aleph_minus_one 11d ago
> Sock masks are actually kinda discreet with the right clothing. Which kind of clothing are you talking about?
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by aleph_minus_one 13d ago
> It seems there is a persistent rift between what hardware designers think users want and what users are asking for > Nobody I personally know wants a faster CPU; they want competent, faster, native feeling software and more power ef
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> I'm convinced that all the quantum talk is the NSA propaganda to convince us to drop RSA and move to some secure post quantum algorithm that they can easily break. It is rather consensus that by now, - too many potential weaknesse
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> You may recall though that whole problem with '42' as the answer was the lack of knowledge of the question. The Earth was created as an attempt to provide the question, but was unfortunately demolished to make way for a hyper
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by aleph_minus_one 15d ago
> It would be nice if someone used AI and/or Lean to sort out the abc conjecture, an important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis. People did attempt this: https://github.com/katobungen/LANA_report_202607
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by aleph_minus_one 18d ago
> Just insane what MBAs are willing to do to a product to squeeze short term profits. Even more insane that this country largely sees these people as a benefit to society and not the vultures they are. I do understand the argument that
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by aleph_minus_one 19d ago
> Nobody will go to an exhibition or a museum to stare at code like we do with paintings. Because most code is a stinking pile of shit. But at least I can easily imagine a world where people indeed do this. :-) Indeed yesterday I drew
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by aleph_minus_one 19d ago
> If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't. Nearly every designer and artist knows that artisan stuff does not bring in the money, but rather commissions for "everyday stuff"; in Germa
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by aleph_minus_one 20d ago
> Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer. Relevant (NSFW): > Guns don't kill people, I kill people - with guns > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk :-D
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by aleph_minus_one 20d ago
I don't know the US law (I live in Germany), but the intuition is clear: 1. Take some CC0/public domain source code. 2. Build a binary out of it and sell licenses for your software. Case study: SQLite's source code is public
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by aleph_minus_one 20d ago
> CC0 is an explicit attempt to emulate public domain in license form, isn't it? Public domain is something different from an emulation of "there is no copyright": You can take public domain material to build some program
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by aleph_minus_one 21d ago
> But all software would be free by default, because all source would be in the public domain, and all reverse compilation of binaries would produce public domain code. I am not aware of any open-source license which tries to approxima
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by aleph_minus_one 21d ago
> There may be a middle ground between the current maximalist copyright regime and ending copyright altogether. The trenches between the different factions are far too deep for any middle ground to have any chance.
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by aleph_minus_one 21d ago
Why even allow any mobile phone for the US solider if it could cause any arbitrary problem for the US military if the location data, name, unit, rank, ... of the respective soldier was published and permanently updated on a publicly vie
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by aleph_minus_one 23d ago
> Antiquities and heirlooms can be a good stable investment, the same reason people trade art or watches or guns or cars. It is only an investment if it (likely) gains yield. Otherwise it is just a means of preservation of value.
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by aleph_minus_one 23d ago
> Also so they can watch each other, in case of the humans trying to shut them down. That's why the human operator needs a gun. :-)
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by aleph_minus_one 23d ago
> I've seen supermarkets that offer targeted "in app only" deals. In Germany, the grocery discounter Aldi (both Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd) explicitly created advertising campaigns that they offer the same prices even if you d
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by aleph_minus_one 25d ago
> gestures broadly at HN and the tech industry For me, HN ist rather some kind of counterweight/counterbubble where not everybody is insanely critical and cynical about Elon Musk and Sam Altman. :-)

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